Birth of a Spartan HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOwyc60ekJQ

Love the music, especially at the point when he walks up to his armor. God, all these shorts are torture. Want a movie made so bad :)

I totally forgot how young the Spartans start out as.

Yeah but remember before they even get to the argumentation stage, they go through years of training, so he may look like a teen there, but i bet he started off way younger.

Whole Headhunter game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzKpDEw3_UE

8?

^^ are you not open to been raped when it is pissing around doing these animations? or is that the point to balance it more?

I just cant watch this guy, no offence to him, but he is just... he's fucking awfull.

What they changed about nades grift? I am still trying to catch up :)

I'm pretty sure they said the retail version will ship with a significantly larger - and more varied - amount of assassination animations.

I don't see the problem. You can still do a quick smack to the back and he's dead. Assassinations are just a more elaborate way of killing and humiliating your opponent. I doubt anyone serious about his Halo will risk being taken down in the middle of one.

One thing that'll confuse a lot of people is that the shield has to be depleted entirely until you can wear down the health. Meaning when you have 1% shields and someone snipes you in your torso you don't die and still have full health. There are weapons that are still on hit kills, like the shotty, sword and sniper (as long as it is a headshot). And thank god for that. I thought it was very cheap the way it used to be in Halo 3. 6 bullets out of the AR and a melee would kill in less than a second.

@ManThatYouFear: Grenades aren't that bouncy any more. And they have a bigger explosion radius than in Halo 3.

I was going to say the exact same thing :)Yeah that will confuse people but i'm pretty sure Halo 2 was like this too? I remember this was one of your gripes with Halo 3.

Thank you, hmm bit odd that, human nades bounced aliens stuck...why change it? meh i am sure it will come into its own when we play it.

They still bounce, just not as much. I'm sure this has everything to do with balance. The damage not translating through the shield makes sense too, IMO....

Yeah, the grenades are just much more realistic now. Nothing wrong with that.

The way it's done in Reach is the way to go. It'll make the game more consistent even with latency. Halo 3 had various problems with the melee, the thing that was "fixed" was the simultaneous beatdowns. I'm sure they learned from that and we'll see something similar to the Halo 3 solution.

I always hated the way shields worked in Halo 3, Jin is right about that. Halo 2 shields had a very good balance in close quarters combat, but they're not using the same mechanics as Reach. A melee while running would inflict a bit more than 1/2 shield damage and a shot from the BR to the head would instantly kill afterwards. Still it's very similar and it will make the game better.

The only real problem I see is armour lock. It's just too strong on a close quarters map, it promotes randomness in FFA and it's downright overpowered in a team game, it's making most power weapons useless. It will get abused extensively, have you seen how fast it recharges? Bungie have to either rebalance it or it won't appear on loadouts on smaller maps (after people whined on their forums for months).

Next to armour lock evade seems to be the most useful armour ability to me, and the most fun. Unlike sprint it doesn't have a moment of pause as you pull up the weapon, which makes it incredibly useful in actual combat. But that's Elite only, so it shouldn't be a real balance issue.

It'll be interesting to see how the Needlerifle will compare to the DMR. The explosive nature of the needles might give it the edge and I already see the whiners complaining about how the DMR is not the strongest weapon. Same happened in the Halo 3 Beta when the Carbine was the shit (and they nerfed it so it became obsolete).

I like the fact that the pistol is actually up to twice as fast at killing at short range as the DMR. I'm sure it'll be the next skill weapon and it'll actually dominate at CQC.

Holy smokes i just noticed something in this video http://www.gamesradar.com/f/halo-reach-murder-mont...

can you play in 3rd person?? At times it shows the spartan shooting in third person, not just for the assassinations.

Hmm, i've been noticing that, sure it isn't someone dead watching the action so they can spawn in on their teammate through Invasion, or something?

I think the camera follows your buddy so you can spawn on him, and thats what you are seeing...

Yea, damn it scoobs, pay attention! :P